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Color postcard (14 x 9 cm) with a view of the post office with its clock tower at 102 South 16th Street, on the west side of 16th street between Capitol Avenue on the north and Dodge Street on the south. There are pedestrians and street cars running up and down 16th Street. Across the street to the south at the southwest corner of 16th & Dodge are signs for Hayden Bros. Dry Goods and Sherman & McConnell Drug. Further south at the southwest corner of 16th & Douglas is the J. L Brandeis & Sons store with a flag and behind and to the left the cupola of the New York Life Building located at the northeast corner of 17th & Farnam Streets. The title Post Office and 16th Street, Looking South, Omaha, Neb. is typed in black along the top. Above it are the numbers 11007. The reverse side is postmarked February 17, 1910 over a one cent postage stamp featuring the profile of Benjamin Franklin. The card is addressed to Mr. Martin Petersen, Ruthton, Minnesota, and includes a handwritten message.

The massive granite and sandstone structure on the block between Dodge Street & Capitol Avenue and 16th & 17th streets is shown on the right side of this postcard. Constructed over a period of 14 years, 1894-1908, for nearly two million dollars, this Vermont marble building had walls nearly 2.5 feet thick. The architectural style is Richardsonesque, named for Henry Hobson Richardson. This style is an American variation of Romanesque architecture. Source: Omaha Public Library Omaha History Clipping File-Post Office.

[unreadable] Omaha, Neb. Feb. 17/10. Hello Martins: - Though I would drop you a card today so you could see were I'm at today. This post Office is a little bigger than one in Ruthton Galena M.T.O. [at top upside down] I'v found there is lots of [unreadable] yet, [unreadable] down here